May 16, 2016

A (short) walk down memory lane…

Pittsburgh is a great place to have kids…

And Happy Valley…

…is a great place to raise them

The eye never stops moving

Questions and consequences

  • Frames of reference for perception, perceptual stability, forward models
  • Optic flow parsing, self vs. objects
  • Individual differences

  • What are the statistics of natural visual experiences?
  • Do they differ across development?
  • How do they shape behavior?
  • How do they shape the developing brain?

Brain imaging is totally tubular

Just make sure to go before…

  • Sorry, Jon Cohen. :(

Help us build the future…

Lessons learned

CMU ≠

The world doesn't seem to know that.

But, Google does…

Put the emPHAsis on the right sylLABle

CarNEgie Mellon

The world doesn't know that, either.

Think or thwim mentoring has its virtues

Ken Koedinger can really hit a softball

This is 'gradient descent'

Ken Koedinger can really throw a football

ACT-R does not mean

A Cognitive Theory

Ken Koedinger can…

  • Land some big-a$$ grants.
  • Help me make Databrary's UI/UX better.

MacMail 0.9 was good

  • So was Word 5.1a
  • Never upgrade

Avoid holy wars

  • GUI vs. command line > - Mac vs. Windows vs. *nix > - Blue state vs. Red state > - Nativism vs. empiricism > - Python vs. R > - JavaScript vs. a real language

From simple beginnings…

Psychology is harder than physics

Don't have physics envy

CMU ≠ A Typical Psychology Department

Be thankful for that. I am.

"But what does that tell us about development?" – R. Siegler

  • "But moles make molehills!" – H. Simon
  • Ask (and answer) the deeper question

The Brady Bunch

The Brady Baker Bunch

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story of a neural network
Who was fighting for street cred in the hood.
All the models had their productions.
The network didn't feel good.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story of a neural network
Who was fighting for street cred in the hood.
All the models had their productions.
The network didn't feel good.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story of a neural network
Who was fighting for street cred in the hood.
All the models had their productions.
The network didn't feel good.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story of a neural network
Who was fighting for street cred in the hood.
All the models had their productions.
The network didn't feel good.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story, of SOARing frameworks
that were 'splainin' cognition on their own.
Just ACT-Rs in a play for Bobby Klatzky.
But, they were all alone.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story, of SOARing frameworks
that were 'splainin' cognition on their own.
Just ACT-Rs in a play for Bobby Klatzky.
But, they were all alone.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story, of SOARing frameworks
that were 'splainin' cognition on their own.
Just ACT-Rs in a play for Bobby Klatzky.
But, they were all alone.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story, of SOARing frameworks
that were 'splainin' cognition on their own.
Just ACT-Rs in a play for Bobby Klatzky.
But, they were all alone.

The Baker Bunch

'Til the one day when the network reached its threshold.
And the CPUs ran out of things to crunch.
The geeks saw colleagues as their family.
That's how we all became the Baker Bunch.

The Baker Bunch

'Til the one day when the network reached its threshold,
And the CPUs ran out of things to crunch.
The geeks saw colleagues as their family.
That's how we all became the Baker Bunch.

The Baker Bunch

'Til the one day when the network reached its threshold,
And the CPUs ran out of things to crunch.
The geeks saw colleagues as their family.
That's how we all became the Baker Bunch.

The Baker Bunch

'Til the one day when the network reached its threshold,
And the CPUs ran out of things to crunch.
The geeks saw colleagues as their family.
That's how we all became the Baker Bunch.

The Baker Bunch

The Baker Bunch, The Baker Bunch.
That's the way we all became the Baker Bunch.

The Baker Bunch

Sources

Adolph, Karen. 2015. “Active Vision in Passive Locomotion: Real-World Free Viewing in Infants and Adults.” Databrary. doi:10.17910/B7.123.

Gilmore, Rick O. 2014a. “Cortical Responses to Optic Flow and Motion Contrast Across Patterns and Speeds.” Databrary. doi:10.17910/B7101Z.

———. 2014b. “Four-Month-Olds’ Discrimination of Optic Flow Patterns Depicting Different Directions of Observer Motion.” Databrary. doi:10.17910/B7Z593.

Gilmore, Rick O., Florian Raudies, Swapnaa Jayaraman, and Linda B. Smith. 2014. “Natural Scene Statistics of Visual Experience Across Development and Culture.” Databrary. doi:10.17910/B7988V.